Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Conference of Asian Association for Public Administration: "Reinventing Public Administration in a Globalized World: A Non-Western Perspective" (AAPA 2018)

Session: Culture (Ethics & Religion) and Public Administration

4 articles
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Challenges With Implementation Of The Merit System In The Open Recruitment Of Government High Positions: The Case In Indonesia

Septiana Dwiputrianti
Indonesia is a large country with the fourth highest population globally. Moreover Indonesia is estimated to become a high income country and be reckoned economically competitive with other countries by 2025. However, bureaucratic governance and performance have not been able to put Indonesia in a strategic...
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Enhancing Education Effectiveness: In Which 'Education' Should Society's Hard-Earned Money Go?

Muyanja Ssenyonga, Ely Susanto
This paper is exploratory in nature, and has the objective of examining the determinants of educational effectiveness as a pathway to identifying how countries should allocate public spending on education. The paper is based on a review of extant literature and analysis of statistics on education attainment,...
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Efforts Into Establishing A Moral And Ethical Culture In Public Administration-Kenya: The Missing Link

Purity K. Gitonga
Public officers occupy positions of authority and trust and control enormous public resources. They also regulate many socio-economic and political activities. However, the public sector in Kenya has in the recent past been discredited for apathy, laxity, inefficiency, uncivility, wastefulness and unacceptable...
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Ethics In Public Service (A Survey In The Regency Of Sleman, The Regency Of Bantul, And The City Of Yogyakarta, In The Province Of The Special Region Of Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Ulung Pribadi
The purpose of the study is to investigate the ethical behaviour of public servants in providing public services. The Method of this study is to survey a sample of citizens who had received public service at the Department of Licenses of the regency of Sleman, of the regency of Bantul, and the city of...